Presentation to 7th Central Pay Commission on 12/12/2014 at Jodhpur Indian Railways Technical Supervisors Association (I

1. Presentation to 7th Central Pay Commissionon12.12.2014at Jodhpur Indian Railways Technical Supervisors Association (IRTSA)

3. AboutIRTSA • IRTSA represents about 70,000 Technical Supervisors / Supervising Engineers • Junior Engineers, Senior Section Engineers, • Chemical & Metallurgical Assistants, Chemical & Metallurgical Superintendents, • Depot Material Superintendents, Chief Depot Material Superintendents & • Senior Engineer/IT • working in various departments on the Indian Railways. • IRTSA was established over 49 years back (in 1965) and is one of the oldest and most widely represented Association of middle management cadre of Technical Supervisors on Railways.

4. About the Category Technical Supervisors / Rail Engineers working in the technical departments of the Indian Railways, including • Mechanical, • Electrical, • Civil Engineering, • Signal & Telecommunications, • Drawing/Design Departments, • Stores Departments, • C&M Laboratory & • Information Technology etc.

5. .....Continues Play vital & pivotalrole in the safe and efficient running of the trains – including Direct responsibility in Production, repair & maintenance of • Rolling Stock, Locomotives, • P-Way Tracks, Bridges, Works, • Electrical Services, Over Head Electrification, Signal & Telecommunication. • All allied machinery, Plants and equipments in the Railway Workshops, Production Units, etc. • Open Line Depots & Sheds, • Power Distribution, • Drawing & Design Offices, • Chemical & Metallurgical Labs, • Store Depots and • IT Centres.

6. Hierarchy of Technical Supervisors in Indian Railways

7. Determination of Grade Pay Principles required to be followed, • An equal should not be over an equal; • Promotion' implies advancement to a higher grade; & • Supervisor should be in a scale higher than Supervised, and • Job Evaluation by classification Method. • Duties, responsibilities and accountabilities shouldered by each category / post. • Technical categories which shoulder direct responsibilities shall be placed one grade higher than non technical & supporting category.

8. Grade Pay for Junior Engineers (JE)

9. DISTURBANCE OF VERTICAL RELATIVITY BETWEEN JE & Sr. TECH WHO WORKS UNDER JE

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12. Accepted recommendation of Para, 2.2.11of 6th CPC - Violated • “Grade pay will determine the status of a post with a senior post being given higher grade pay. Grade pay being progressively higher for successive higher posts, the employees on promotion will get monetary benefit on promotion in the form of the increased grade pay apart from the benefit of one additional increment”. • But promotion from Sr.Tech to JE is happening in the same GP of Rs.4200 in PB-2.

13. DISTURBANCE OF HORIZONTAL PARITY & VERTICAL RELATIVITIESCOMPARATIVE UP-GRADATION AFTER SCPC – For JE

14. Grade Pay for Senior Section Engineer(SSE)

15. Disregard to Duties & Responsibilities • Have to supervise the work of a very large number of JEs, Technicians and Senior Technicians, besides that of • Stores Clerk, Office Clerks, Head Clerks, Office Superintendents and Chief Office Superintendents. • The Chief Office Superintendents working under the SSE, have been also placed in the Grade Pay of Rs.4600 at par with SSEs – in disregard of the settled law that an equal should not be over an equal; & Supervisor should be in a scale higher than Supervised.

16. DISTURBANCE OF HORIZONTAL PARITY & VERTICAL RELATIVITIES • Rs.840-1040 and Rs.840-1200 were allotted to the apex scale of Senior Technical Supervisors i.e. SSE (then called Foreman and Principal Foreman). • Pay scales allotted to Technical Supervisors are even higher than that of pay scales allotted to Group-B (Gazetted). • In the categories of teachers, nurses and accounts the apex scale were allotted two or three grades below the SSEs. • After the implementation of Sixth Central Pay Commission scales the post of SSE with the direct recruitment element which requires Degree in Engineering had been allotted with the GP of Rs.4600. • Apex scales of categories mentioned above were placed in the Grade Pay of Rs.5400.

17. UN-JUST MULTIPLICATION FACTOR – 5th CPC • 5th CPC had adopted a Common Multiple Factor of 3.25 for all categories of Staff from S-1 to S-34 - except S-13 scale which was granted to SSE. • 5th CPC has recommended only Rs.7000-11500 to the SSEs placed in S-13 scale, later it was revised as Rs.7450-11500, only minimum of the scale had been revised and corresponding revision of maximum of the scale had not been done. • This has reduced the span of years of the scale from 20 years to 18 years. • The scale has been kept low to accommodate S-14 scale above it by the difference of Rs.50 only.

18. Disadvantages carried through in 6th CPC • The principle of 6th CPC to calculate the Grade Pay as 40% of maximum of the fifth pay commission scales put SSE scale in further disadvantageous position. • If the same common multiple factor of 3.25 was applied by the 5th CPC to the scale of SSE (S-13), they should have been given the Pay scale of Rs 8000-13500 by the Fifth CPC and • Consequently their GP should have been Rs 5400 after the 6th CPC.

19. Highest Recruitment Qualification among Group-C • In Railways the direct recruitment in the Accounts cadre is in PB-1 GP Rs.2800 • In the clerical & Station Master cadre it is also the same. • In the case of Technical Supervisors the direct recruitment is made at the level of JE (GP Rs.4200) with Diploma in Engineering as qualifications and one year Training. • SSE are recruited with the educational qualification of Graduate in Engineering with a training of one year and granted PB-2 with the Grade Pay of Rs.4600.

20. COMPARATIVE UP-GRADATION AFTER 6th CPC – DISTURBING HORIZONTAL PARITY & VERTICAL RELATIVITY - For SSE

21. PROPOSED PAY SCALES FOR TECHNICAL SUPERVISORS

22. Discrimination in the Grade Pay of CMA-I • 6th CPC vide para 3.4.7 has recommended Rs.4600 GP to all subordinate Engineering cadres carrying minimum entry qualification of Degree in Engineering. • Even though in the pre-revised CMA-I (Chemical & Metallurgical Assistant – I )entry qualification of Degree in Engineering is happening, it has been granted with the GP of Rs.4200 only. • Pre-revised CMA-I which is having the element of Direct recruitment with minimum entry qualification of Graduate in Engg shall be placed on par with SSE.

23. Avenue of Promotion, Classification of Posts & Anomalies in Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS)

24. In the same scale till 4th CPC • It is brought to the notice of Honourable 7th CPC that incumbents of SSE are stagnated in same grade till 4th CPC. • 4th CPC Rs.2375-3750 • 5th CPC Rs.7450-11500 • 6th CPC GP Rs.4600 in PB-2 • Numerical value of scale changed, but incumbents remain same.

25. Main reasons for lack of Avenues of Promotion • Meager number of Posts in Group A & B vis-à-vis Group C on the Railways as compared to all other Central Government Departments; • Non-implementation of DoPT’s orders in Railways, regarding Classification of Posts – issued after every Pay Commission. • Confining the Cadre Restructuring on Railways within each Group – A, B and C – without linking the same to each other, thus leading to highest cluster of posts in the Apex Grade of Group C, • No Career Planning for Technical Supervisors on Railways, while repeatedly doing the same for Group A as well as for Group B

26. %age of Gazetted posts on Railways As compared to All India Average

27. Classification of posts – Group ‘B’ (Gaz) • Third, Fourth & Sixth Pay Commissions and orders issued by DOP&T thereafter, classified the posts - in Group-B (Gazetted) - carrying the pay scale of SSE, CMS, CDMS and Sr. Er./IT. • Even though Fifth pay commission recommended different type of classification of staff, • DOP&T order issued after the Fifth Pay Commission, “Central Civil posts carrying a pay or a scale of pay with a maximum of not less than Rs. 9,000 but less than Rs. 13,500” were declared for Group-B category. • But, the posts of SSE, CMS, CDMS & Ser/IT were classified in Group C by the Railways even though placed on the in scale of Rs.6500-10500 & Rs. 7450-11500.

28. Similarly placed posts in other Dept are all classified as Group ‘B’ (Gaz) • Ordnance Factory Board, Ministry of Defence • DGQA (Director General of Quality Assurance) • CPWD • MES and Departments of Posts & Telecommunication • Have all classified the posts in Grade Pay Rs.4600 as Group B Gazetted and posts of Junior Engineer in Grade Pay of Rs.4200 as Group-B Non-gazetted. • State Governments like Government of Tamilnadu, Nagaland, Orissa etc which followed 6th CPC recommendations have also followed the DOPT order in regard to classification of posts.

29. Para 44.4 of 5th CPC - posts carrying similar functions were given the same classification • Department of Personnel and Training have clarified that though there were certain exceptions to the rule, like the case of Assistant of Central Secretariat, the effort was to ensure that posts carrying similar functions were given the same classification. There were situations in which the functions of a post might not adequately match the high pay scale attached to it and therefore, though they were eligible for higher classification, they were classified at a lower level.

30. Railway Accident Inquiry Committees (RAIC) & Principle & Policy of DoPT • Railway Accident Inquiry Committees (RAIC) had recommended for upgrading of Senior Supervisors to Group-B Gazetted so as to have the status and powers to ensure Safety and discipline on the Railways. • Railway notifications strictly follow the principles & policies adopted by DOP&T in Pay Rules, all Allowances, DAR, NPS, MACPS, Transfer policies, etc. Even though Railways notify them separately. • Ironically, Classification of Posts is the only area in which the Railways have deviated from the orders of the DOP&T and that too to the determent of the Staff as well of the Railways itself

31. Ratio of Group A & B Gazetted officers viz-a-viz Group C are the lowest on the Railways • Ratio of Group A & B Gazetted officers viz-a-viz Group C are the lowest on the Railways as compared to all other Departments under the Central Government. • In Central Govt. Departments the overall ratio of Gazetted to Non-Gazetted employees is 1:20. • In Railways, - the ratio is 1:114. • Unlike others, this category supervise 5 tiers of semi skilled, skilled & highly skilled workforce and Supervisory cadres, along with clerical cadres, under them.

32. Cadre restructure never brought relief to senior supervisors • Cadre restructuring for Group C posts on the Railways has been done four times since 1984 (i.e. in 1984, 1993, 2003 & 2013) with functional justifications and matching financial savings. • This exercise brought some relief to the employees at every level, But, apex scale in Group-C (pre-revised Rs.7450-11500 or present Rs.4600 Grade Pay PB-2 Rs.9300-34800)never benefited by it as none of the posts of SSE, CMS, CDMS were ever upgraded as a result of CRC. • Reclassification from Group ‘D’ to ‘C’ and Group ‘B’ to ‘A’ have taken place, no such step has been taken for advancement of staff from Group ‘C’ to Group ‘B’.

33. All Govt. depts. Increasing managerial posts • Between the year 2001 and 2008 number of Group-B employees in Central Govt Departments have increased to the tune of 35.65% from 1,59,517 to 2,47,822 • This is despite of reduction of total number of employees to the tune of 24.5% from 38,76,395 to 31,11,610. • Group-B entry in all other Government departments happen either in Rs.4600 Grade Pay or in Rs.4200 Grade Pay. It is only in the Railways that the Group B starts from Grade Pay of Rs.4800 – ignoring those in Grade Pays of Rs,4200 and Rs.4600

34. Present day Rly system need more managerial posts • During 3rd & 4th CPC days Railways were having high number of unskilled workforce with conventional work execution methods. • Over the years Railways have introduced lot of new technologies, upgraded its working system, and improved its productivity & safety through various methods. • Railway’s 12th five year plan outlay is expected to increase to 5.5 lakhcrore compared to Rs.60,600 crore during 10th plan and 1,94,263 crore during 1th plan. • Further, outsourcing of various activities and services involving crores of rupees has become prevalent in all the technical departments of Railways over the years.

35. .....Continues • Effective execution of these out sourced activities need higher degree of functional, operational and administrative requirements. • All these warrants clear administrative reforms with higher number of managerial posts. • Service conditions in Railways keeping in view functional, operational and administrative requirements to ensure safe, effective & efficient train operations requires enlargement of management cadre as evidently accepted by Railway Board as per file notings made by Member Staff, Financial Commissioner, Additional Member Staff, Railway Board etc. • Ref-RB/RTI/2011/010029398/CPIO/43, dated 25.02.2013

36. PLIGHT OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES IN RAILWAYS • Engineering Graduates, who are selected for the Job through tough competition, join Railways as Direct Recruit SSEs in GP 4600 and are posted after one year rigorous training. • Highest entry qualification in the entire Government Group-C cadres. • Trained not only in respective field but also in other Technical fields besides Establishment & Finance rules, Stores procedures, DAR rules, Factories act, HOER, etc • Their promotion opportunity confined to vacancies arising from 4200 Group ‘B’ posts. • That too after a stringent selection procedure which includes written test, interview & high standard medical test.

37. SSE - SHOULDERS HIGHEST RESPONSIBILITIES • Supervises & Manages Junior Engineers, a large workforce of Technicians and other Staff engaged in • Production of Rolling Stock & Locomotives. • Repair and maintenance of Rolling Stock & Locomotives. • Installation, repair and maintenance of P.Way, Bridges, Numerous Railway buildings & other civil engineering assets. • Installation, repair and maintenance of Electric traction, distribution & other electrical assets. • Installation, repair and maintenance of Signal & Telecommunication & other assets. • Stringent Quality control through Chemical & metallurgical tests. • Maintenance of other allied Machinery, Plants, Equipments and other valuable Assets of the Railways which is continuously expanding & modernized. • Purchase, storage & delivery of materials worth of crores of Rupees

38. VERY PURPOSE FOR INDUCTION OF GRADUATE ENGINEERS IN GR-C HAS BEEN DEFEATED • For the purpose of bringing in the talented fresh knowledge group to manage & complement the modernizations and sophistications in Railways. • To excel in the higher grade posts with the good experience in field level management. • By allowing the Graduate Engineers to get stagnated without any motivation at the recruitment scale itself, the basic purpose of induction of Graduate Engineers get defeated.

39. Demands in a nut-shell for career planning • Senior Section Engineers in Grade Pay of Rs. 4600 should be granted the Grade Pay of Rs. 5400 in PB-3. • All the SSE, CMS, CDMS & SE/IT be granted with Group-B gazetted status. • For better career prospects and higher level of management number of Gazetted posts should be increased. • Combined cadre restructure of Group-A, B & C. • To overcome the stagnation and to meet out the requirement of higher degree of supervision due to the introduction of modern technologies & more outsourcing – New scale of In-charge senior supervisory official be introduced as part of cadre in the Grade Pay of Rs.6600.

40. MACPS & TIME BOUND PROMOTION • Grant of financial up-gradation under MACP scheme on promotional hierarchy - (instead of Grade Pay hierarchy) – as per judgment of various Courts and The Supreme Court of India. • Three financial upgradations under MACPS may be granted after 8, 16 and 24 years of regular service (instead of 10,20 & 30 years at present). • Counting of Training Period of JEs as regular service for MACPS – as it is counted for Increment and seniority for LGS etc.

41. MACPS & TIME BOUND PROMOTION • Junior Engineers, CMAs & DMAs on the Railways be granted the 3rd Financial up-grading under MACPS to the Grade Pay of Rs.6600 after 30 years of regular service – at par with their counterparts in CPWD etc. • Direct Recruit Senior Section Engineers, CMS & CDMS on the Railways be granted the 3rd Financial up-grading under MACPS to Grade Pay of Rs.7600 after 30 years of regular service at par with their counterparts in CPWD etc. • Three time bound promotions after 4, 8 & 12 years of service to all Government employees. • Four time bound promotions after 4, 8, 12 & 16 years of service to all Technical Employees.

42. Allowances pertaining to the category • Grant 10% of basic pay as arduous duty allowance to all Open line staff and supervisors. –staff are exposed to adverse weather conditions • It is requested to recommend Risk Allowance at the rate of 10% of Basic Pay and it may be extended to Semi-skilled, skilled, supervisors and officers working in above mentioned areas - Risk is inherent and continuous in the occupational itself with adverse effects on health. • Design Allowance to the JEs & SSEs in the Drawing & Design Office on the Railways – at par with their counterparts in the CPWD.

43. .....Continues • In the present fast technological improvement scenario to attract intelligent and knowledgeable persons to Railway training institutions, the Training allowance should be restored to 30 % of basic pay. • IT Allowance to Junior Engineers/IT & Senior Engineer/IT to attract and retain talented personnel in this new horizon of Information Technology.

44. INCENTIVE SCHEME • Suitable Incentive Scheme be adopted for different areas of Indian Railways like Open Lines, Sheds, Depots etc and left out areas of Production units & Workshops. • Special conditions of Service in the Railways including Safety involved, ever increasing workload, seasonal rush and emergencies, conditions of work including factors related to nature etc. should be taken into account while finalising the Scheme. • All employee upto the level of SSE be included in the Incentive Scheme.

45. All Demands pertaining to Central Government Employees, Railway Employees and Technical Supervisors / Rail Engineers were elaborately explained in the memorandum submitted by IRTSA on 26th May 2014 Which may please be considered by Honourable 7th CPC

46. THANK YOU Looking for another opportunity To explain other demands